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RHINOCEROS. 
worn-out brush. It grows from the skin only, in 
the same manner as the hair, — a circumstance 
which entirely divests of improbability the asser- 
tion of its sometimes being seen loose, although by 
no means so loose as some writers have supposed. 
Nor is it at all extraordinary that the Rhinoceros 
should possess the power of moving it to a certain 
degree, since the Hog, to which, in the natural 
arrangement, it so closely approaches, has a much 
greater power of moving its bristles, which, if 
concreted, would form a horn of the same nature.”* 
The teeth vary considerably at different periods 
of their age ; their feet have three toes, apparent 
externally, as if shod with blunt hoofs ; and the 
real structure of their bones, with that of the 
other parts of the skeleton, will be seen in our 
first plate. 
The Rhinoceri go sometimes in pairs and in 
small groups, but at other times are gregareous. 
They feed entirely on vegetables, tender branches 
of trees, and the grasses ; and their interior struc- 
ture, though simple, is very ample, the stomach 
and caecum very large, the intestines very long. 
The upper lip is rather long, elongated into a 
narrow point, and prehensile, thus continuing 
the form of the proboscidean animals, and is used 
in the same way to collect and gather in the 
• Burch. Truv. ii. p. 76. 
